High School Entrepreneurship Summer Program

LaunchX has collaborated with top universities over the years and is able to pool speakers from these collaborations and more!

• Professors, lecturers, and instructors from universities including MIT, Harvard Business School, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, and more
• Experienced entrepreneurs sharing their stories, providing advice, and giving tips
• Industry experts across branding, design, fundraising, social media, customer acquisition, prototyping, and more

Program leaders and interns bring their entrepreneurial experience:

• Program leader example #1: executive life coach, healthcare consultant, adjunct professor, TEDx speaker, and commercialized a product on Amazon
• Program leader example #2: founder of a company providing online business training, Forbes Coaches Council contributor, high school entrepreneurship teacher, adjunct professor and entrepreneur in residence

LaunchX has continually been a leader in high school entrepreneurship education.  Examples of the thought leadership include:

• A top rated edX / MITx course (recognized by CNBC)
• A workbook on Amazon
• Three founder TEDx talks

We’re also constantly innovating on our course materials for the summer program.  One of our motto’s is that “data drives decisions,” so we are continuously using feedback to iterate.

AUesome is an app for autistic children promotes spatial & sensory learning with cognitively engaging games & an integrated physical activity kit.  Their vision is to simplify the at-home therapy process for parents of children with autism by combining a physical play kit with an app that serves as an accompanying training tool for the activities in the kit.

As of partway through LaunchX Virtual, this startup team completed their minimum viable product (MVP) kits to send out for user testing. They sent out 5-8 free kits (adjustable to customer interest) to parents for initial feedback plus set up a GoFundMe to help fund free kits. They also are applying for a grant, as they are a non-profit and could be eligible for certain grant based funding. They have also coded a website to further promote their product, idea, and demonstrations of their kit, along with an app mockup.

Vitto Baskets is dedicated to promoting a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle and supporting local farms by making organic local produce more accessible.

Within only a month of operation, they sold over $1,000 of Vitto Baskets with plans to sell thousands of dollars more in the months to follow. With local newspaper publications, partnerships with local nonprofits, and soon to come additional locations, they have big plans for the company.

Launchies are ambitious, and outside of the program can struggle to find the right person to start an initiative with. ASOSHI is intended to support that challenge.

During their beta testing, they formed a manual service where we users would pay $4 to fill out a profile-making Google Form and be paired with a project partner. In less than a week, they had over 15 paying customers with a Discord community of over 70 active users. The feedback after the paying users were paired was overwhelming! Almost all of them were satisfied with the new friend they had made. Within a short timeframe of the program, the venture started talks with multiple investors about partnerships and investments.